But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

The author’s Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made...

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare...

Men and women believed and proclaimed God was firmly on their side – and easy and shallow assertion that reduced God to a sort of house deity.

No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is half vivisector, half...

Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Trying to be more than human one becomes less.

The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

As though I had displeased the gods with my erotic hubris, I managed to be the only bisexual girl in the history of colleges who failed to arouse the interest of the campus queers immediately...

Beware of that demon called ‘Changing The World’.

Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.

Someone with a low degree of epistemic arrogance is not too visible, like a shy person at a cocktail party. We are not predisposed to respect humble people, those who try to suspend judgement. Now...

Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better.

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it’s going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and...

The sciences have two extremities which meet. The first is the ignorance in which men find themselves at birth. The second is that attained by great souls. They have surveyed whatever man can know, find...

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look — like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens — a ruin, sometimes even a dead tree — the act of leaving parts...

Every medicine is vain.

Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.

Deeply convinced of the reality of the divine will, he (Lincoln) had no patience at all with any who were perfectly sure they knew the details of the divine will.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods and animals. In the Garden, after all, the snake approached God’s...

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what...

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.

We can never be gods, after all–but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to be above average, let them to believe that it was others who were...

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of human beings are regarded as sacrosanct as they stand, where God is required to command...

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don’t stop. Don’t try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it.” narrator Charles Yu, not...

Don’t you know about the praying mantis that waved its arms angrily in front of an approaching carriage, unaware that they were incapable of stopping it? Such was the high opinion it had of its...

Second-rate parts of the world for second-rate minds.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my...

The Duke would not pay for the works. He says that the Castle can never be taken. That is called hubris, Giacomo, the belief that you are never wrong. Believing you are never wrong is...

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That’s what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That’s HUMMUS. hubris is worse.Percy: what could be worse than...

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn’t seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as “junk DNA,” though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone...

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength,A leash with Demons at its length.

The Duke has decreed that the Castle is not cold.” The gentleman’s lips are almost blue from this lack of cold. “And the Duke is right and correct in this as in all things.”…some very...